Migration Basics
These factors drive people away from their home country.
This famine caused many Irish people to leave their homeland.
This immigration processing center opened in New York Harbor in 1892.
Ellis Island
This 1882 law banned Chinese laborers from immigrating to the United States.
Chinese Exclusion Act
This is the process through which an immigrant becomes a citizen.
naturalization
Jobs, safety, and education are examples of these factors.
pull factors
Chinese immigrants helped build this railroad connecting the eastern and western United States.
Transcontinental Railroad
Many immigrant families lived in these crowded urban apartment buildings.
tenements
The Immigration Act of 1924 limited immigration based on this characteristic.
national origin or country of origin
This term describes someone living in a country without official legal authorization.
undocumented immigrant
The forced transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas is an example of this type of migration.
forced migration
Many German immigrants settled in this U.S. region because of available farmland.
Midwest
Poor immigrants often traveled in this crowded, uncomfortable area of a steamship.
steerage
The national origins quota system favored immigrants from these two European regions.
Northern and Western Europe
This immigration category allows eligible people to sponsor certain relatives.
family-based immigration or family reunification
This belief favors native-born people over immigrants and helped fuel anti-immigrant movements.
nativism
This political movement opposed immigrants and was especially hostile toward Catholics.
Know-Nothing movement/party
These programs taught immigrants English, U.S. customs, and civic values.
Americanization programs
This 1965 law ended the national origins quota system.
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
This federal agency primarily patrols the U.S. border.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, or CBP
A family leaves because of religious persecution and chooses a country with religious freedom. Identify the push factor and the pull factor.
push factor = persecution, pull factor = religious freedom
Explain one way immigrants contributed to the economy and one economic/job-related challenge they faced in the 1800s.
railroad construction, factory labor, "less desirable" jobs
discrimination, low wages, dangerous work
Name two types of checks immigrants experienced at Ellis Island.
medical inspections, legal questioning, identity verification
Name the two main immigration priorities emphasized by the 1965 reform.
family reunification and skilled workers
Name ICE’s two main divisions and describe one responsibility of each.
ERO, which handles detention and removal, and HSI, which investigates crimes such as trafficking and smuggling